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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Peter Hannam Economics correspondent

Labor launches new body to evaluate public programs using randomised trials

Assistant Treasury minister Andrew Leigh
Andrew Leigh will use a National Press Club speech on Tuesday to help launch the Australian Centre for Evaluation. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

Mimicking the way pharmaceutical companies use data to develop new drugs could help save the federal government millions of dollars while also making spending fairer, according to the assistant Treasury minister.

Andrew Leigh will use a National Press Club speech on Tuesday to help launch the Australian Centre for Evaluation (ACE), a body funded in the May 2023 budget with an initial $10m over four years to design better policies.

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